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Alva Stråge

Assistant Head of Department

Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science
Telephone
+46 31-786 59 63
+46 766-18 59 63
Mail
alva.strage@gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Room number
J506
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

Researcher

Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science
Telephone
+46 31-786 59 63
+46 766-18 59 63
Mail
alva.strage@gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Room number
J506
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

Researcher

Philosophy and Logic unit
Telephone
+46 31-786 59 63
+46 766-18 59 63
Mail
alva.strage@gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Room number
J506
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Alva Stråge

I received my PhD 2019 at Gothenburg University. In my dissertation "Minds, Brains, and Desert: on the relevance of neuroscience for retributive punishment" I discuss how neuroscientific descriptions of human thinking and behavior are relevant for how society, and specifically the legal system, views people's ability to choose and how this ability is connected to desert, blame, and punishment. This debate is part of a more fundamental philosophical discussion about whether moral judgments presuppose free will (e.g., can I do wrong if I cannot choose?), whether free will can exist in a determined world, and if so, what it means to have free will.

Research projects. From 2024 (until 2027) I work as a researcher in the research project "Free Will Foundations: Metaethical and Methodological Underpinnings of Free Will Theories" (funded by the Swedish Research Council), together with Ragnar Francén (PI), Manuel Vargas and Gunnar Björnsson.